NEWS OF THE WEIRD -It seems a man named Roderick mistook a snorkeler in a river in Eugene, OR for a Nutria, and shot him in the face at point blank range.
Despite sounding uncannily like a sports nutrition beverage, a Nutria is a capybera-esque rodent, bigger than a muskrat, but smaller than a beaver.
As the shooter was in possession of crystal meth at the time of the shooting, the story appears to be page from Hunter S. Thompson, a wacky crystal-meth induced hallucination.
On the other hand, perhaps the shooter is a hunting buddy of Dick Cheney's.
"Roderick told deputies he thought Cheesman was a nutria swimming in the Smith River near Reedsport, about 90 miles southwest of Eugene, and shot him with a .22-caliber rifle, police said." - CNN
It's a tad reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's unfortunate rabbit-wacking incident.
Though they have quite similar teeth, as you can see the rodent above looks totally unlike a snorkeler....
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